About the author
Doug Cummings started
his nearly 25-year broadcasting career in television, moving to news-radio when
the camera crews, “began seeing more of a reflection off my forehead.” He
prefers radio to television for the immediacy of breaking news coverage and the
opportunity to be creative with word pictures.
Doug’s writing began as an outgrowth of his experiences in both
broadcasting and law-enforcement.
Doug spent time as a deputy sheriff while in
college and lived some of the action scenes he now brings to his writing. In
fact, he says, "I’ve been shot at, pointed guns at armed murder
suspects and even survived multiple high-speed car chases.”
He chose to pursue
journalism as a career, however, and graduated with a degree in Communications.
Some years later, he followed that up with a Masters in Public Affairs
Reporting. He worked as an anchor,
reporter and talk-show host in Kansas and Missouri before moving to Chicago.
In more than 15 years as a crime and breaking news reporter for the
former WMAQ Radio and now WGN Radio in Chicago, Doug has received a number of
awards for coverage of dozens of stories from murders and train crashes to
school shootings and tornadoes. His reports have been heard on every major
network.
Doug lives in suburban Chicago with the feline action-hero Socks-Monster.
They are at work on the next Reno McCarthy novel.
“Reno is better looking, quicker with the snappy retort, in better
shape and doesn’t work under the same legal constraints as I do. He can share
his sometimes twisted observations on life. I like the guy. If I was a
television executive, I’d hire him in a minute.”
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